| Show ONE OF THE EARLY ONES PAROWAN iron irod county utah may 12 1897 thinking it was my duty to report the fact of my being a pioneer to gait bait luke lake valley I 1 take tails the present opportunity of briefly stating elating a few incidents in regard to my starting out and final safe bate arrival in salt lake valley I 1 started darted with my parents parent in the old ship brooklyn in toe company of saints under the charge of samuel brannan on the ath day of february 1846 and ana after a tedious and somewhat ome what tormy stormy palange pa pas eange nago arrived at the little town of yorba yerba buena bosom now the great metropolis of san ban francioso Frano Franc loso en the th ath day of J the same iame year boeing toeing six ix months on OB the water soon boon after we had landed baduel brannan concluded to forma form a joint matook company and locate the sainte on a piece ol of land he had selected and form a colony from which an aa be said id would pring up and grow a large and flourishing city my parents parent not bebing sing the pointy point withdrew or more properly op peaking did not agree to his proposition but concluded to paddle their own ganoe canoe we took passage on the brooklyn as aa far an ais monterey and there I 1 engaged with or dr semple to work on hla his newspaper the californian the first an paper published in california by an amer lean can the paper was waa printed halt half la in spanish and halt half in the mixed population it wow wa finally fil lany moved to san ban red aad I 1 till still worked un on it till the spring of 1847 when the saints were to gather to the mountains mountain my parents obeyed the call by getting an outfit mending fending for we me to come home and starting atari og some gome time about the first of august we traveled tr IW far as pleasant valley where our taa teamster motor left lea us to dig alg gold and as a we could not got get another the folks folk cox con eluded to stop and try their hand baad at as digging the prec loui bluff but with all their persuasions bad aad entreaties ent tt IS seemed to me that I 1 could not be eagle fled to top atop with them and finally they hey gave me so an outfit and I 1 came oia oa to go toe mountains with JAM jamea SOD eon and a company of mormon battalion we arrived in salt lake valley la in the month of october 1847 the saints were then living jiving to in a fort that la is the greater part of them it was waa quite a trial to one so 0 o young as a I 1 walt wag being but 14 years ot of age to ba deprived ot of broad bread and other necessaries ot of life and subsist mostly on ego aud and thistle roots roote which I 1 was forced to do while tending the crop next spring and fighting the crickets but our trouble was wai greatly reduced on the arrival ot of we the sea gulle who made short hort work of the crickets orlo and saved us as a small email crop I 1 did not realize at that bat time the hand of an overruling providence la in sending bending the gullet bufa I 1 now know that nothing but the intervention tion of the lord could have aved this people at that time and I 1 feel thankful that I 1 was wag permitted to vass through what I 1 did as ae the experience peri ence Is IB worth more to me than ail the gold of california I 1 baij I 1 would foe be brief but I 1 believe I 1 have overreached reao hed the limit and will elope JOHN |
